"Judge Us By Our Results" - WELS Church and Change

Mrs. Ichabod suggested this logo for The CORE in Appleton.

Someone wanted Church and Change judged by its results. I am not sure who wrote that since both of them write anonymousely.

I am delighted to list Church and Change results, ever since the Church Growth Movement was sired at 2929 N. Mayfair Road - aka The Love Shack. Fuller Seminary gave birth to the bastard child but the doctrinal father remains painfully shy about his seminal role in this catastrophe:

1. Mobridge Prep School was shut down in the West.
   
2. The New Ulm prep was moved out of town, restarted at Prairie, fed millions of dollars, and converted to a prison when it was shut down.
   
3. Lying about the total cost ($30 million?) and changes to the curriculum, the synod officials had DMLC take over Northwestern College, removing the Reformer's doctorate, creating Martin Luther College, which is now failing.
   
4. Tuition was jacked up so fast that the synod lost a generation of students at the preps and college. Thank you, Wayne Mueller and Karl Gurgel.
   
5. So three schools have been shut down. Is a pattern emerging? MLS will be next, and that should finish off MLC.
   
   
6. David Valleskey, Fuller Seminary alumnus, joined the Sausage Factory, made VP, then president of the seminary, capping his career in Church Growth with one of the worst theology books ever written.
   
   
7. James Radloff, Valleskey's classmate, became Mission Counselor (Fuller Seminary salesman) and the editor of the worst Lutheran publication ever - The Mission Counelor Newsletter.
   
8. Paul Kuske, Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, and Roger Zehms launched Pilgrim Community Church in Columbus, where attendance peaked at 3 (three) people.
   
9. Paul Kuske and Robert Mueller spawned CrossRoads Community Church in S. Lyons, Michigan, which is now Evangelical Covenant and very grateful to its three Church Growth WELS founding pastors: Rick Miller, Kelly Voigt, and Mark Freier.
   
10. Coral Gate mission in Florida, where WELS tossed in tons of money, a huge staff, and actually built its only attractive first-unit ever - only to see their CG heroes run it into the ground. WELS sold the building to the Church of Rome. Wasn't Radloff the Mission Counselor in Florida? One couple said the only way to tell a Florida WELS church belonged to the synod was by the sign outside. Well, they changed that soon enough. See below.
    
11. Following Kuske's lead, various congregations began springing up without the name Lutheran, absent that grow-blocking word WELS, and even devoid of church. Nota bene: see The CORE in A-town for the latest improvement in marketing the name. The same congregations also "downplay the Means of Grace," as Valleskey wrote famously about his Church Growth idols.
    
12. Rock and Roll Lutheran Church, not far from Church and Chicanery Headquarters South, in VP Don Patterson's own suburb. The assistant for this tiny church gets a subsidized salary of $50,000, recently raised because we are living in hard times.
    
13. Latte Lutheran Church in Wisconsin, with a female assistant pastor "administering the Means of Grace." Probably the Sausage Factory said, "At least we got them to mention the Means of Grace. That's a start."
    
14. CrossWalk in Phoenix, where the female assistant gets a huge salary grant for doing Welcome Wagon work. I don't think the congregation has joined the synod, but why be legalistic?
    
15. CrossSomething in Chicago.
    
16. Time of Grace, the epicenter of Enthusiasm in WELS. They want to be linked from WELS.net and all WELS congregations but Jeske is strangely silent about his affiliation on the air and his websty.
    
17. The Church and Chicanery websty.
    
18. The CORE websty.
    
19. Keynote speaker Leonard Sweet, endorsed by Paul Calvin Kelm. Doctrinally speaking, that is the kiss of death.
    
20. Kenote speaker Ed Stetzer, another Babtist loved by VP Don Patterson, aka SP-in-Waiting.
    
21. Wisconsin Lutheran College (WELS only when fund-raising), which spawned Charis, which spawned Church and Chicanery, an academic center proud of inviting pedophile Archbishop Weakland--Church of Rome--as a featured speaker.
    
22. Putting Reformed teachers like Larry Olson and Paul Kelm on permanent synod subsidy. Both have Church Growth DMin degrees.
    
23. Doling out money to Church and Change disciples like Don Patterson, who has a ranch, a suburban home, and African safaris to enjoy, while denyin it to real missions.
    
24. Shrinking the synod ever since they started.
    
25. Devastating the synod finances while shrinking the synod and crushing the schools.
    
26. Their version of Love Your Neighbor is definitely a result of their labor since 1977:

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No wonder Mrs. Icky has a heart problem. It is filled with hatred much like the Ichabod faithless.



27. Anonymous said...
    Wishful thinking on the knock down drag out part. We in WELS subscribe to Love the Lord your God and Love your neighbor as yourself. You seem to forget that part GJ. You see, God commands us to love our neighbor and if you don't do that, you don't love God.
    
    Now put that in your pipe and smoke it. BTW, are you sure your name isn't Richard?